Practice question · Estimate
Anderson published Imagined Communities in which year? Set the slider.
Estimate on a scale from 1940 to 2010.
Hints
- The same year as Gellner’s Nations and Nationalism and Hobsbawm’s Invention of Tradition.
- Early 1980s.
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1983 (answers within ±6 count)
Why
1983, an astonishing single year in which Anderson, Gellner, and Hobsbawm all published, jointly demolishing the idea that nations are eternal.
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